Service Plans to Consolidate Outgoing Operations through Eastern Half of New England

The Postal Service Revealed Plans for an "Interim Consolidation" of 3-Day Destinating Mail operations from throughout the Eastern Half Of New England to a single "Consolidated" Operation in Northwest (Waltham) Boston.

The Postal Service will be changing the designation of the Nashua PMPC to a L&DC no sooner than ninety days from the April 21, 2005 notification letter, or after mid-July 2005.  The change in designation of the Nashua facility will compel the Service to adhere to National Agreement requirements regarding casual employment percentages and limitations, but allow the Postal Service to work categories of mail other than priority mail in the facility.

National, Local and Branch Officers engage in intense effort to press Union position on Postal Reform Legislation

Local President Robert Losi, Vice President Dave West, Treasurer Tim Dwyer, Central MA Branch President Craig Lauzon and Portsmouth NH Branch President Mike Hickson joined Local Officers from around the Country and our National Officers in Washington, DC to lobby key legislators on Capitol Hill on Postal Reform.

Local 301 has learned that the Postal Service intends to perform an, "Interim Consolidation" plan that will result in the processing of all mixed states standard letter mail at three sites in the Northeast Area effective Monday, April 18, 2005.

The Postal Service intends to consolidate the processing of mixed states standard letters, now processed in most mail processing facilities in the Northeast Area, to three locations:  Northwest Boston, MA, Hartford, CT and Buffalo, NY.